Apple Computer At 50 - This Week In Retro 263

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Indie game dev legend Jeff Vogel of spiderwebsoftware.com joins us for a provocative hour of conversation about legendary Apple products, summer camp with Lord British, moonshots and other artifacts of the Space Race, and much more!

00:00 - Show Opening

08:20 - Fifty Years Of Apple

Story Link: bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxdn9lyd2o

Apple prototypes: youtube.com/watch?v=74qPQt_5DdM

23:17 - Moon - The Computer Art That Made Sure We Didn’t Miss

Story Link: hackaday.com/2026/03/30/see-the-computers-that…

31:17 - Housekeeping - News links found below

37:15 - Omega Race Counts As Racing

Story Link: github.com/albank1/Commodore-64-More-Disassemb…

Dragon's Eye CRPG: youtube.com/watch?v=jJfGN4Zeb7M

Additional links: github.com/cyneprepou4uk/NES-Games-Disassembly

retroreversing.com/source-code/decompiled-reta…

49:29 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Gaming Historian ends: youtube.com/watch?v=nV_Aww8_6wQ

XBox 360 GTA4 Devkit: tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/xbox-360-dev…

Manic Miner online: manicminer.online

Taito Crown 603 claw machine: videogameschronicle.com/news/after-asking-the-…

CLK emulator: github.com/TomHarte/CLK

Doom "on a BBC Micro": youtu.be/32hJLwrk-gY

Capcom mini-arcade machine: hackster.io/news/lcl-li-s-tiny-capcom-arcade-c…

Episode Credits

"Apple Lisa (Little Apple Museum)" by Alvy is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openv….

"Apple Vision Pro (M5, 2025) with Dual Knit Band on Display (cropped)" by AzureSaturn is marked with CC0 1.0.

"Apple Macintosh ー Computer History Museum (25364330319)" by Ik T from Kanagawa, Japan is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0?

"Apple Newton MessagePad H1000 in NMAH" by National Museum of American History is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed….